Achievements of the government during the corona period: FebruaryNamaste Trump, March- MP government toppled, April- Got candles burned, May- Government’s sixth anniversary, June- Virtual rally in Bihar, July- Attempt to topple Rajasthan government.
I kept warning them on Covid-19 and the economy. They rubbished it. Disaster followed. I keep warning them on China. They’re rubbishing it.
India’s economic mismanagement is a tragedy that is going to destroy millions of families. It will no longer be accepted silently.
BJP has institutionalised lies. 1) Covid-19 by restricting the testing and misreporting deaths. 2) GDP by using a new calculation method. 3) Chinese aggression by frightening the media. The illusion will break soon and India will pay the price.
Whether you like him or not, you have to admire Rahul Gandhi for his gumption to walk back into the limelight despite the crushing electoral defeats, the myriad questions raised about his leadership abilities and the ignominy of being held up as an object of ridicule by his political rivals.
There is a hectic pace to Rahul’s online interventions, and his effort is to project the Modi government as incapable of handling the pandemic and the economic slowdown, and as dishonest on the skirmish with China.
This story is from the August 16, 2020 edition of THE WEEK.
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